Dr Alex Davis

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2649

Email

ald3@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 101

Location

Kennedy Hall

 

Biography

Alex Davis works on the literature and culture of the late medieval and early modern periods. He is the author of three books: Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance (2003); Renaissance Historical Fiction (2011); and Imagining Inheritance From Chaucer to Shakespeare (2020). With Neil Rhodes, Harriet Archer, and Gordon Kendal he is one of the editors of the MHRA Tudor and Stuart Translations edition of Erasmus in English, 1523-1584 (2023). He would welcome enquiries from prospective research students in any of these areas of study.

Research areas

The literature and culture of the English Renaissance; Shakespeare; medievalism.

PhD supervision

• Oscar Haines
• Nilanjana Goswami

Selected publications

• Imagining inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare

  Davis, A., 25 Feb 2020, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 297 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Renaissance Historical Fiction: Sidney, Deloney, Nashe

  Davis, A., Jul 2011, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. 264 p. (Studies in Renaissance Literature; vol. 29)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Chivalry and Romance in the English Renaissance

  Davis, A., May 2003, Boydell and Brewer. 263 p. (Studies in Renaissance literature)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access

  Between courtesy and constancy: The Faerie Queene, books 6 and 7

  Davis, A., 8 Sept 2016, In: English Literary History. 83, 3, p. 655-679

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  'Game' in The Tale of Gamelyn

  Davis, A., 2016, In: Medium Aevum. 85, 1, p. 97-117 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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